thursday may 29 Stomp: The wildly popular, London-born, New York-based percussive/movement troupe gives new meaning to the term "found art." The Doc Martens-wearing crew brings the metaphorical kitchen sink and literally boots it around the stage at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 West Adams, along with a bunch of other unlikely...
Losing His Religion Dressed down in orange corduroys, a stocking cap and ratty blue flannel, Michael Stipe looked less like a pop superstar than a Mill Avenue urchin during the R.E.M. singer's appearance at a packed book signing at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe on January 29. The tome in...
thursday april 24 Hamlet, the Ballet: Center Dance Ensemble's Frances Smith Cohen conceived and choreographed this production, which incorporates jazz, modern and ballet styles by the dance troupe, live acting by the Courtyard Players, and an original rock score. Performances are scheduled on Thursday, April 24; Friday, April 25; and...
thursday may 8 Spearhead: The militant hip-hop/funk group, led by vocalist and former b-ball player Michael Franti (a real tower of baritone power at six-foot-six), offered up a near-great album in 1994 with its debut, Home. The band's latest, Chocolate Supa Highway, is a tribute, of sorts, to Bob Marley,...
thursday april 10 The Descendents: This relic of punk's original wave had an inordinate impact on today's punk-pop scene. Basically the band All (the Descendents' descendant) augmented by original vocalist Milo Aukerman, the revivified act returned to doing what it does best--and did first--on its latest release, Everything Sucks: speed-saw...
Joe's Crab Shack, 1604 East Southern, Tempe, 730-0303. Hours: Lunch and Dinner, Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Someone once said that the special genius of the capitalist system is that no one invented it. What does that mean? It...
thursday april 17 Arizona Science Center: Check out the grand new facility at 600 East Washington--a construction that soars on wings of concrete--in its first full week of business. The programs "Arizona Skies," "PlanetQuest" and "Sun, Earth, Stars" are featured in the center's planetarium through Friday, May 30. The Oscar-nominated...
thursday march 27 "It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art": David Rubin, Phoenix Art Museum's curator of 20th-century art, organized this exhibit, billed as an exploration of "rock as a social force in [contemporary] art" and including pieces by Annie Leibovitz, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe,...
thursday march 20 Critters Buggin: Let's be blunt: New Bohemians, as a concept, warranted maybe five minutes of Andy Warhol's industry-standard quarter-hour of fame. Still, the musicians who backed up neo-hepkitten Edie Brickell were generally excellent. Two of 'em, drummer Matt Chamberlain and bassist Brad Houser, prove it with this...
thursday march 13 Cactus League Baseball: The boys of spring are back for this year's slate of preseason games, which continues daily, through Friday, March 28, at stadia Valleywide. On Thursday, March 13, the Milwaukee Brewers host the Colorado Rockies at 1:05 p.m., the Chicago Cubs play the Oakland A's...
thursday march 6 Cactus League Baseball: The boys of spring are back for this year's slate of preseason games, which continues daily, through Friday, March 28, at stadia Valleywide. On Thursday, March 6, the Oakland A's play the Chicago Cubs, the Milwaukee Brewers take on the San Diego Padres, the...
thursday february 27 Cactus League Baseball: The boys of spring are back for this year's slate of preseason games, which opens with a couple of charity matches on Thursday, February 27: The Seattle Mariners take on the San Diego Padres in a benefit for the Peoria Diamond Club at 1:05...
I was kneeling over a stack of 10-cent records in the Salvation Army thrift store on South Central Avenue a few months ago, thumbing through the usual dog-eared copies of Herb Alpert albums that every American seems to have owned at one point and then given away--the scratched Christmas LPs,...
thursday february 20 Beck: No matter who scores the statuettes at the Grammy Awards on Wednesday, February 26--and the Grammys have historically, and notoriously, gone home in the limos of questionable recipients--Beck (real name: Beck Hansen) remains the big winner in the year in rock. It's fashionable to link that...
thursday november 28 Of Ice and Hit Men: Phoenix Coyotes, Phoenix Roadrunners: Don't cry for the Valley's pro-hockey franchises; they'll eat their fill on Thanksgiving--of haymakers and high sticks. Two editions of the most dangerous game are scheduled on Thursday, November 28: The National Hockey League's Coyotes take on the...
thursday january 30 Eugene Chadbourne: "Dr. Chadbourne" is one of the last standing champions of noncommercial alternative music; if gonzo was a sound, it might sound something like his. The absolutely unpredictable and artistically unfettered guitarist has made forays into free jazz, acid rock, avant blues and faux-redneck noise (with...
thursday january 23 Tricky: The so-called "majesty of trip-hop" is an aural explorer, and he seems to have found the Northwest Passage connecting the strange-bedfellow forms of rap and new age--though not the new age of Windham Hill, not by a long shot. As the London-based musician/producer says, referencing the...
orange crush Glendale Halloween Festival: Carnival games, a costume contest and free candy and prizes are on the agenda at this annual fest, scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, October 31, at Sahuaro Ranch Park, 59th Avenue and Mountain View Road. Admission is free. Call 930-2842. Halloween Parade of...
Budget Deficit: How was your 1996? Did you buy Suns season tickets, hoping to scalp them at a profit? Were you a big-time contributor to the Dole campaign, looking to land an ambassador job? Did you predict a stock-market crash and sell short? Unless your name is Symington, if you're...
thursday december 26 "Converging Cultures: Art and Identity in Spanish America": The installation at Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central, details the new society that arose in the Americas in the 16th through 18th centuries, a byproduct of the shotgun marriage of European colonialism and native culture engendered by Spain's...
'tis the season "Children's Holiday Nutcracker Party": The second annual fund raiser for Ballet Arizona includes a costume party, entertainment, storytelling and lunch. Seatings are scheduled at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, December 8, at the Ritz-Carlton, 2401 East Camelback. Admission is $30, which includes the meal; all proceeds...
Tom Morello, 31: a leftist radical with a seven-digit savings balance. A Harvard graduate (1986, with honors) who plays guitar for a platinum-selling band with hit songs that advocate class warfare. A reformed metalhead who was born in Harlem. A public supporter of both Amnesty International and the Shining Path,...
